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Humanities - TCC OER Subject Guide: OER starting points

This guide compiles starting points for OER and freely available resources for interdisciplinary Humanities courses and topics. This OER subject guide was created for TCC faculty and staff and reflects TCC credit, continuing education, and corrections course offerings. The purpose of this guide is to help faculty and staff more easily find and review OER in their areas so that they can make decisions about quality, accuracy, relevancy, and potential use.

OER starting points for Humanities, by course area and material type

TCC-created resources: 

Textbooks, courses, and readers:

Library e-books and videos with unlimited user access:

Supplemental tools and materials (incl. primary sources, games, lessons, videos, exercises, etc.):

Cross-disciplinary OER subject guides:

As HUM&101 is so inter-disciplinary, you may also want to explore resources on the following OER subject guides:

Textbooks, courses, and readers:

Library e-books and videos with unlimited user access:

TCC-created resources:

Textbooks, courses, and readers:

Supplemental tools and materials (incl. primary sources, games, lessons, videos, exercises, etc.):

For OER on introductory film studies, please explore the Film Studies OER subject guide, linked below, and click on the "Introduction to film" sub-tab:

For OER on American film history, please explore the Film Studies OER subject guide, linked below, and click on the "American history, American film" sub-tab:

TCC-created resources:

Textbooks, courses, and readers:

Supplemental tools and materials (incl. primary sources, games, lessons, videos, exercises, etc.):

All of the library e-books below have unlimited user access.

Textbooks, courses, and readers:

For more OER on different types and periods of literature and literary criticism, please explore the following OER subject guide(s):

To browse OER on Bible as literature, explore the Literature OER subject guide, linked below >> click on the sub-tab for "Bible as literature."

For more OER on different types of writing, please explore the following OER subject guide(s):

The Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Pedagogy OER Subject Guide, linked below, provides a starting point for OER professional development and curricular materials relating to issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion; trauma-informed practices; and culturally responsive, inclusive, and anti-racist pedagogy and practices. This guide includes concepts and keywords; TCC OEDI resources; introductory and more in-depth professional development resources (toolkits, guides, etc.); curriculum resources (activities, assignments, etc.); OER and EDI rubrics; instructional design; accessibility; as well as EDI-focused OER in different disciplines across the curriculum. 

Please fill out this form to add to this OER subject guide:

How does this guide incorporate TCC faculty/staff feedback?

If you leave recommendations or feedback about specific resources on this guide, then these personalized TCC comments will then be added in "more..." drop-down links below the specific resource(s).

Here's an example of a "more..." link below a resource:

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When you click the "more..." link, then the personalized comment appears below. So when you see a "more..." drop-down link, please click it and see what your fellow TCC faculty members have shared!

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